Humanities Research Institute Calendar

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Friday, October 4, 2024

    • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, 1st Floor Lobby

    Graduate students in the humanities, arts and related fields: you are cordially invited to join us for a casual, relaxed happy hour gathering on the first floor of Levis Faculty Center!

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

    • 12:00 pm
    • Illinois Street Residence Halls, Room ISR 50AB

    Professor Jamie L. Jones (English) will talk about her scholarly work over lunch at this event for residents of the Honors LLC, Innovation LLC, and Sustainability LLC.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

  • Robert Townsend
    • 4:00 pm

    Robert Townsend, program director for Humanities, Arts, and Culture at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, will discuss the latest from the Humanities Indicators project. Learn what their data means for our work inside and outside the academy in 2024 and beyond.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Monday, October 28, 2024

    • 4:00 pm
    • Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana

    IGB-HRI Distinguished Public Lecture Series: "Linking Life Sciences and Humanities" with Jennifer Raff, PhD. Raff is an award-winning author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas (KU).

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

  • Rebecca Walkowitz
    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    Focusing on research and teaching in global languages and cultures, and on some artworks concerned with languages, this lecture calls for making a more pragmatic, and more assertive, case for knowing and learning world languages. Knowing and learning world languages are crucial to our students’ lives, to solving urgent social and technological problems, and to...

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Location TBA

    Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Thursday, February 27, 2025

  • Kalindi Vora's headshot
    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 422

    Think Again series events: Kalindi Vora, Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, and Women's Gender and Sexual Studies, Yale University, holding public lectures on Feb.27.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

    • 3:30 - 5:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 300

    The Humanities Research Institute and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co-host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of a woman in their discipline that changed the field in important ways.

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

    • 7:30 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

    Community Speaker Series panelists: Tracy Barkley (Directory, Sola Gratia Farm), Emily Stone (Director of Public Engagement, College of Education), and Bhakti Verma (PhD student, Curriculum & Instruction).

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

    • 4:00 pm
    • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210

    Bryce Henson holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research with graduate certificates in cultural studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Thursday, May 8, 2025